Golden Cuckoo Marans
A variety of the Marans · Also known as Golden Cuckoo Maran
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Golden Cuckoo Marans
Golden Cuckoo replaces the silver of the standard cuckoo with the recessive sex-linked gold gene, so the lighter barred areas carry a warm orangey-grey, coppery cast rather than silver. Recognised in the UK and French standards and auto-sexing at hatch, it is the gold-based counterpart to the Silver Cuckoo while retaining the Marans' dark chocolate egg.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus